IARU HF World Championship
Call: K5GN
Operator(s): K5GN
Station: W5KU
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: S. Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
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160: 38 0 9
80: 118 0 26
40: 392 0 53
20: 627 0 71
15: 436 0 57
10: 88 0 16
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Total: 1699 0 232 Total Score = 1,220,320
Club:
Comments:
Conditions were really punk, especially at the start. They got better after all
hope for good DX rate on 15 was gone. 20 was good after dark, but faded to
black a little after European sunrise ended the competition for time with 40m.
Lots of great HQ stations -- seems more and more amateurs are finding ways to
get their country's HQ station on the air. Great fun, but still creates a
European multiplier advantage that originally was not part of the competitive
landscape.
QRN was not as bad as last year, but the lack of signal strength made up for
it.
Perhaps 2004 will be better propagation than this year. I felt like the band
opening quality, timing, and length was less than you'd expect near the bottom
of the cycle.
Too bad so many people heard the bad stuff and quit. The contest was very
interesting, with openings coming and going so quickly.
Thanks very much to my host, W5KU, as usual. His hospitality hasn't waned even
though he recently lost one of his kidneys.
This was the first time since the big storm in 1998 that every antenna was up
and working. Wow. No big Murphy problems except for not enough time for sleep
before the contest -- the usual -- and not getting a new version of TRLog battle
tested to work out the kinks beforehand.
Too bad the JA's don't like this contest as much as others. Hardly worked
any.
The OpAid6 Award for this year goes to N6OL, who called me 5 times on 20m.
Great fun, CU in the NA Sprint in September.
Continent List K5GN
160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL
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USA calls = 30 87 194 336 268 69 0 0 0 984
VE calls = 5 9 24 43 34 5 0 0 0 120
N.A. calls = 2 5 7 8 7 1 0 0 0 30
S.A. calls = 0 4 14 15 15 11 0 0 0 59
Euro calls = 0 4 48 149 79 1 0 0 0 281
Afrc calls = 0 2 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 11
Asia calls = 0 0 8 26 7 0 0 0 0 41
JA calls = 0 2 74 21 3 0 0 0 0 100
Ocen calls = 1 4 14 12 11 0 0 0 0 42
Total calls = 38 117 384 615 426 88 0 0 0 1668
HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
12 0 0 53 40 0 0 93 93
13 0 0 26 83 0 0 109 202
14 0 0 0 7 57 6 70 272
15 0 0 0 13 92 14 119 391
16 0 0 0 8 79 12 99 490
17 0 0 0 36 43 17 96 586
18 0 0 0 5 42 25 72 658
19 0 0 0 22 45 2 69 727
20 0 0 0 38 15 0 53 780
21 0 0 0 34 9 6 49 829
22 0 0 0 54 6 1 61 890
23 0 0 0 60 7 0 67 957
0 0 0 15 39 13 5 72 1029
1 0 8 16 21 13 0 58 1087
2 0 4 8 82 0 0 94 1181
3 3 20 9 7 5 0 44 1225
4 1 0 81 10 0 0 92 1317
5 0 14 14 30 0 0 58 1375
6 21 21 9 1 0 0 52 1427
7 5 5 34 4 0 0 48 1475
8 0 19 19 3 0 0 41 1516
9 7 20 9 2 0 0 38 1554
10 0 2 63 3 0 0 68 1622
11 1 4 28 13 0 0 46 1668
TOTAL 38 117 384 615 426 88
Station:
160 - Half-wave sloper from 160' to North
- NE(1000'), NW(580'), SW(450'), SE(300') single-wire terminated bevgs.
80 - Two element delta loop parasitic array NE, tops at 130'
- Inverted vee facing NW/SE, top at 130'
- Shares beverages with 160
40 - Cal-AV two element full size driven arrays 2/2 at 165/70
- Two element delta loop parasitic array NW, tops at 100'
20 - Hygain 205CAS, 5/5/5 140/100/50, top rotates, mid and low fixed NE
- Hygain 204BAS, 4/4, upper rotates, lower fixed NW
- Tribander of some type, fixed SE
15 - KLM 6el yagis, 6/6 135/90, top rotates, low fixed NE.
- Hygain 155CAS, 5/5 110/70, fixed NW.
- Hygain 155BA, 5 el fixed SE.
10 - M2 7el yagis, 7/7/7 105/70/35, top rotates, mid and low fixed NE.
- Hygain 105BA, 5 el fixed SE.
Three stations one computer
20/160 TS930+Alpha 76
40/10 FT1000MPMkV+ Alpha 78
15/80 FT1000D+Henry 3K
TRLog
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